What induces rage in you (that's interesting)?

[Zylon]

What about "sammich" ?

That problem tends to be self-correcting.

[bluemax]

UPS induces rage in me.

Story:

I decided to upgrade my phone last weekend (current one was dying and I'd had it for 3 years) so I go to my ATT store, go through all the hoops etc and find out they don't have the phone I want in stock (16GB iPhone 4, they only had the 32GB). My options were drive to Santa Monica and deal with the Apple Store or order one and have it delivered to my place. Without thinking it through I have it delivered to my apartment. Now if I had been thinking I'd have had it delivered to where I'm working, because OBVIOUSLY this is gonna need a signature, but I'm dumb and don't think about this.

Fast forward to this past Wednesday, UPS tries to deliver but I'm not home to sign so they can't. I get home, get the slip and call them to see if they can either change where they deliver it to or hold it at the shipping center so I can come in and pick it up. They tell me neither option is possible because its a high value item and only the place that shipped it can change stuff. So I call ATT, they tell me they don't have access to that in their system (I'm guessing this was one of those third party call centers so yeah nothing they can do), they suggest I go to the store I got it at and talk to them.

I go to the store and they tell me they can't change it either, they say my only option at this point is to have UPS ship it back to ATT so the order is canceled and then I do everything over again. I call UPS tell them to ship it back and that's it.

Thursday morning I get a call from someone at UPS (after meeting him he appears to have been the driver). He tells me to come by the shipping place and say his name and they'll get me the package, something I was told was previously impossible.

After work I haul ass from West Hollywood to Downtown LA to make it to the place before they close. At first the people at the computer can't find my package in the system, they call some other part of the warehouse and the guy finds it and brings it over. Cool right? Well no because like I was already told the computer wouldn't let them sign it over to me. They try and make some calls to someone higher up the chain or something, but finally give up and decide that getting in a small amount of trouble is worth giving me my package (for the record I tried to be really nice and polite to these people because it wasn't there fault and I was expecting this to happen). In the end I think they made the system think the package was delivered to me or something, I'm not even sure. I got my phone and that's what mattered to me.

Anywho, the rage was the fact that there's all these weird locks and such in place preventing a person from changing where something was shipped too. It seems like it shouldn't have needed to be this hard.

The whole thing would've been avoidable if I hadn't messed up in the first place or had gone to a different store I guess.

[Mightynute]

...I walked into the Apple Store last Friday and picked up my new iPhone 4 (16GB) and was in and out in maybe twelve minutes?

Oh, rage, right. Upselling. No, I don't want MobileMe, yes I already have Applecare, no I would not like to check out an iPad as well JUST GIVE ME WHAT I ASKED FOR YOU PATCHOULI-SMELLING GARGOYLE! Argh - it's like if you go in knowing exactly what you want and don't want them to set it up for you, the poor store employees go into ferret shock.

[WarrenM]

Dude, relax, it's their job to upsell you. It isn't personal.

[Zylon]

Whatever upselling the Apple Store is engaging in, it can't possibly be as bad as Go Daddy's.

[bluemax]

...I walked into the Apple Store last Friday and picked up my new iPhone 4 (16GB) and was in and out in maybe twelve minutes?

Oh, rage, right. Upselling. No, I don't want MobileMe, yes I already have Applecare, no I would not like to check out an iPad as well JUST GIVE ME WHAT I ASKED FOR YOU PATCHOULI-SMELLING GARGOYLE! Argh - it's like if you go in knowing exactly what you want and don't want them to set it up for you, the poor store employees go into ferret shock.

Two of the three closest Apple stores to me are located in major tourist destination/traps (and the third is at a huge annoying mall). It would've been pointless for me to drive to either without an appointment.

[Omniscia]

We still don't have an actual Apple Store here yet. The closest one is in Montreal.

We do have Small Dog Electronics, though, an Apple Specialist retailer and self-described as "one of the larger Apple resellers in the US." It's just like an Apple Store, except with more wood tones and less gleaming, fluorescent sterility.

[russellmz00]

apparently umbrella technology is so advanced that the "push the obvious button on the handle to open" school of design is gone. i grabbed an umbrella while heading out the door with my sister's antsy dog. it's raining. outside under the porch roof i try and open the umbrella but have to take the cover off. annoying but doable by having the dog wait. then there's one, two three straps keeping it closed. fine, got to fit it into the cover somehow.

there's no fucking button on the handle. i tap the bottom, try twisting this loose ring around the handle's top, try manually pushing it up. nada. the dog starts pulling so i finally give up and throw the damn thing on the ground, hoping it breaks. i then walk the dog in the rain.

had the umbrella actually been mine i would have curb stomped for being so shittily designed. i can't even describe why something as insignificant as "umbrella not easy to open" got me so pissed i wanted an inanimate object to feel pain.

[Raife]

Women delight in completely impractical household objects. It's kind of their thing.

I'm sure men have an equally absurd proclivity, perhaps it is in making broad (ha!) generalizations.

[Thoro]

Women delight in completely impractical household objects. It's kind of their thing.

I'm sure men have an equally absurd proclivity, perhaps it is in making broad (ha!) generalizations.

Practical(for their use) but highly specialised and thus rarely used tools, 'handy' tool-organising containers or likewise that get used properly once and are then reduced to an unmanageable mess, and anything for the garage/hobby room that uses batteries or a power cord.

[sinnick]

This is an old story, but I was reminded of it today.

Our office building shares space with a delivery company that employs a lot of delivery men who like to take smoke breaks out in front of the office (We're upstairs in a loft space, they are downstairs where they have access to warehouse space). The entrances to both these spaces open directly onto the street, but whereas our entrance is sheltered, theirs is not. So when it is rainting, they like to stand right in front of our door, smoking and making it difficult to come in and out. We hate this and have asked them repeatedly to stop.

So I'm going out to lunch one day and there is a dude standing there smoking.

ME: Can you guys please not smoke in our doorway?

SMOKEY: (as slowly as humanly possible steps out of our doorway. Rather than moving over the 4 feet to his own doorway, however, he stands directly in front of our doorway, as close as possible without technically being in the doorway. I think this is the sort of thing I've seen 4-year olds do. He glares at me.)

ME: (glares back)

SMOKEY: (sulkily) What?

ME: Well, I don't really like the smell of smoke. And we're trying to run a business here. And it's unprofessional. And you guys litter.

SMOKEY: Well...well I don't like standing in the rain.

ME: Well tough! We've got clients coming in here. It isn't nice for them.

SMOKEY: Hey, I'm not on your property, I'm on my property.


Really. Really? I think when people behave like this you should be legally allowed to murder them. Or at least beat them up.

[Zylon]

I think that was an episode of Cheers.

[Bahimiron]

I donno if I'd say it's rage, but these google ads that pop up and prevent me from just clicking the back button to go back a page are kind of annoying.

[lesslucid]

Dude, relax, it's their job to upsell you. It isn't personal.

When people try to upsell me, I always have this urge to "downbuy".

Q: Would you like a drink with that today?
A: No thanks, and also, I'd like to cancel the fries I ordered before.

[Adam Altmann]

Pajama jeans.

[WarrenM]

When people try to upsell me, I always have this urge to "downbuy".

Q: Would you like a drink with that today?
A: No thanks, and also, I'd like to cancel the fries I ordered before.

You sound like a really happy person!

[lesslucid]

You sound like a really happy person!

This is the rage thread. Meet me in the happy thoughts thread to see my sunny side. :P

[Speak With Bread]

FIRE ALARM BEING TESTED AT QUARTER OF ELEVEN IN THE MORNING FOR A GOOD TEN MINUTES STRAIGHT WITH NO END IN SIGHT

IN A BUILDING FULL OF COLLEGE STUDENTS = WAKING UP LARGE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE

RAGE AND POSSIBLE BLOODSHED SHALL ENSUE

[Mightynute]

If you're not awake at quarter to eleven and you don't work nights, suck it up, softies.

[WarrenM]

I love college student problems. "I was woken up at a quarter to 11, it was terrible!"

[Mrenda]

FIRE ALARM BEING TESTED AT QUARTER OF ELEVEN IN THE MORNING FOR A GOOD TEN MINUTES STRAIGHT WITH NO END IN SIGHT

IN A BUILDING FULL OF COLLEGE STUDENTS = WAKING UP LARGE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE

RAGE AND POSSIBLE BLOODSHED SHALL ENSUE

Friends of mine used to get hit with that in their student accommodation. Except their alarms were usually at 8am. And the warden would go around and fine anyone who didn't take it seriously and leave the building.

[Speak With Bread]

Look, it's 'what induces rage', not 'what should induce rage.' :P

[Mightynute]

I'd say "college kids with entitlement complexes", but that's less "induce rage" and more "induce a smug sense of superiority".

[Mrenda]

I'd say "college kids with entitlement complexes", but that's less "induce rage" and more "induce a smug sense of superiority".

You can look at it that way, but there was a debate on national radio here a year or so ago about this issue. Students paid for accommodation, but weren't informed that for the entire year of their stay there'd be building work going on form 7am to 5pm. They sued, and were compensated. The national whinge-in radio show had loads of grumpy old farts calling in to declare the students lazy layabouts and that they should be getting up at 7am like every other worker in the country. That was going all fine and well until their lawyer came onto the show. Part of their case was that students often have to take irregular hours because lectures could be anytime from 8am to 10pm. They may stay up late working on projects and studying, and because they're free until mid-day they do everything on the basis they can sleep later. Expecting them to re-arrange their lifestyle to a 9 to 5 job pattern was unfair because their work i.e. a university education, doesn't fall under a 9 to 5 life. Either way, the moaning oldies continued to flatulate on about lazy students and how they were a disgrace to take money from the state coffers.

[Hunty]

I remember the glowing feeling of accomplishment I used to get at Uni after the three or four days a week where I woke up at 9, went to the library for about 10 and then gently toddled about on JSTOR until 3 (with a sizable lunch break). Afterwards I would play football, or endless games of Pro Evo, or go to the pub. The other days I would rarely rise before noon.

'What a good little soldier I am', I thought, 'applying myself even when there aren't any lectures. I'm working so hard reading my Dickens novel in the bath.'

Those halcyon days. Embarassing, really.

[Mightynute]

because their work i.e. a university education,

HAHAHAHA. You equated "university" with "work".

[bluemax]

A quarter of eleven? When I was in college I think the fire alarm went off during the day ONCE. Every other time was some godforsaken hour where I'd probably just barely fallen asleep.

[Anaxagoras]

HAHAHAHA. You equated "university" with "work".

Well... yes, since most uni students work their ass off doing schoolwork & often supporting themselves with one or more part time jobs. Sure, they often also do fun stuff, or keep irregular hours, but implying that that's all they do is pretty fucking dumb.

As for topic of this thread, mischaracterizations of people piss me off.

[Mightynute]

Goddamn Big Ten tournament next week. I wouldn't give a shit if it wasn't right in my neighborhood meaning that I'm going to have to deal with a greater-than-normal influx of subhuman morons.

[Bahimiron]

Goddamn Big Ten tournament next week. I wouldn't give a shit if it wasn't right in my neighborhood meaning that I'm going to have to deal with a greater-than-normal influx of subhuman morons.